>> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
>> To: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@exis.net>
>> cc: Joe Brewer <joe@admin.net1.net>, portmaster-users@livingston.com,
>> joe@Net1.Net
>> Subject: Re: modem calls to PM3 with no modems
>> Reply-To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
>>
>>
>> I hate all these DOV "features". I want a way to disable all this DOV
>> crap on the PM3. I said this 6 months ago too...
>>
>> Tom
I also wanted an option to turn this "feature" off.
>You may hate it, but in michigan ameritech territory DOV can save a business
>many hundreds of dollars in a year.
Until they catch you... Here in Virginia, Bell Atlantic and GTE both use
traffic monitors on their lines. If they catch you using DOV and you are
paying residential and/or voice-only rates, you get socked with the normal
data rate you should have paid plus a penalty. If Ameritech looks the
other way great. But several providers in our area learned the lesson the
hard way.